Your growth as a singer depends on HOW you practice, not just how much.
This section shares expert-backed strategies and techniques to help you get the most out of every rehearsal session.
Covering topics like warm-up routines, effective repetition, goal setting, and vocal maintenance, these articles guide you to build a practice system that drives consistent improvement and vocal health.
Reading time: 3.5 minutes I’ve done articles before on vocal longevity, on making sure you give yourself rest periods when practicing and singing. This week I want to expand on this in a way that most of you should find helpful – I want to discuss the idea of “micro-rests” and “macro-rests”. Think of it […]
Vocal fach is a topic that has been going round my mind for a while now. Vocal fach is also a topic that is rarely talked about in a helpful way. What is “vocal Fach”? I hear you cry… The ever-reliable Wikipedia definition classifies Fach as: “The German Fach (literally “compartment” or also “subject (of
One of the biggest benefits of today’s article is that it’s an easy way to improve your singing performance in just a few easy steps, so read on. Key Choice is EVERYTHING Recently, I’ve been visiting songs new and old and concocting a list of 10-15 songs that I like and are exciting, both to
At the time of writing this article, I had one particular client who gigged regularly down in London. One of the issues they raised was that they feel that longevity and robustness is a serious problem for them. If they were doing a recording session, they felt they could deliver a handful of good takes
A student brought in some Mika this week – and I hadn’t heard this song in ages! So I bookmarked it for sharing this week… and as I was mulling it over, the following thought dropped out onto the blog post. So, do you hate the sound of your own voice? This is a really
How to practice singing? It’s been a while since I did a series, so here is a 3 parter to help you understand how to better work on your voice. Every student I teach asks me how to practice singing, and which songs they should work on… and it seems quite straightforward a question, and
A number of students ask me about ‘vocal consistency’, how one day their voice feels great and they can do anything with it… and the next it feels horrible and it won’t even string a couple of words together… how can we develop a voice that is relatively consistent one day to the next? There
